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- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: October 15, 1921
- Died: July 2, 1999
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The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...
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